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HIV Prevention and Testing => Do I Have HIV? => Topic started by: Dan on July 26, 2006, 04:33:27 pm

Title: help.
Post by: Dan on July 26, 2006, 04:33:27 pm

About four weeks ago I had protected vaginal sex with a sex worker.  About three days after that I started feeling joint pains, a sore throat, and a kind of rash on my arms.  That's when I found my way to this website, and I was told protected sex was not a risk for transmission.  Most of those symptoms then went away once I stopped stressing about it so much.  But a couple of days ago I noticed skin peeling from my arms again, like a rash but it doesn't itch, and I worried again.  Then I read in this forum that the kind of rash related with acute infection does not itch.  Now i'm really scared.  The condom didn't break, it didn't slip, but could i have gotten infected  when I touched my penis after touching the condom to remove it? 

I'm so scared.  Please give advice.

Title: Re: help.
Post by: RapidRod on July 26, 2006, 04:40:05 pm

Please keep all your questions and thoughts in your orginal thread.

Title: Re: help.
Post by: Andy Velez on July 26, 2006, 05:32:44 pm

Go back to your original thread and put your questions there. I am locking this one before it gets any more responses. Readers can follow all of the exchanges and respond in a more informed way when you stick to the same thread.